Trump's interleaving stolen documents inside magazines and elsewhere is a sign of dementia.

[TheBlackAdder]

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I had an in-law who was NSA upper level type, and when he got older, he would start to leave the house in his PJs at nght.

He would also take thousands of dollars and squirrel them around the house. Inside book and magazine pages, under the pull-out drawers and on top of the drawer opening so you couldn't see it. Money would be stuffed in trinkets and any nook that could be found. Everything had to be searched before disposing of it.

Chaotic condition of stolen files at Mar-a-Lago will come back to haunt Trump at trial: former prosecutor

According to one former federal prosecutor, Donald Trump's habit of intermixing stolen top secret files with magazine covers and personal items at his Mar-a-Lago resort will be presented as damning evidence at his trial should the DOJ indict him.

Speaking with CNN's Boris Sanchez, ex-federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti stated that the condition in which the files were found will help prosecutors make their case against the former president.

"So you mentioned the folders with the classified markings being among the things that were recovered," host Sanchez prompted. "What did you make of the fact that there were all sorts of random stuff in there, too, The magazines? The gifts? That was unexpected."

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-stolen-files/

Not giving that criminal confidence man a pass, but that fucker has some screws loose somewhere.

Person, man, woman, camera, TV

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[Farmer-Rick]

1. Yeah, it's a sign of dementia

But here's the thing. Trump can't read, so why the magazines?

Does anyone else think (aside from that box of perfectly arranged Time magazines in the photo) the
other magazines are really porn?

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Thanks. I stink at proofing what comes out and sometimes I'm like, "Where did that come from?"

[Blues Heron]

11. They are picture frames- the one visible contains a time magazine cover

It’s not clear what was in the other frames though.

[Farmer-Rick]

24. Ohhhhh, I thought it was full magazines

Thanks.

[MerryHolidays]

2. Or that he was actively hiding the documents from discovery

That demonstrates intent, not just negligence as he claims (e.g., the stuff was just thrown in boxes at the last minute before he left the White House on January 20, 2021.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. The intermixture doesn't rule out the possibility that things were just throw into boxes

haphazardly at the last minute in Jan. 2021.

You'd need a way to prove that co-mingling happened afterward, or perhaps during the moving out process (like, purposefully putting all the stolen docs under a pile of innocuous stuff like mags so a casual glance into the boxes would make it look copacetic)

[Ilsa]

3. My MIL has dementia. She lives in her

basement apartment that I try to keep cleaned up. But she's constantly leaving things where they don't belong. She puts dirty dishes in her closet, drags clean clothes out of drawers and wipes her dirty (even poopy) hands on them, takes photos and documents and leaves then out on tables, by the toilet, etc. It's a real struggle keeping her life together.

[central scrutinizer]

4. "Here Vlad, take this magazine

I think you’ll like the article on page 45.” Wink, wink, snicker

[calimary]

6. The word "cunning" comes to mind, but so does "deterioration".

I think we have a mixture of both.

[Qutzupalotl]

7. To me, it looks like a deliberate attempt to conceal

and shows consciousness of guilt.

[TheBlackAdder]

10. Perhaps, but someone wanting to hide stuff would have a secret drawer or something.

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Scattering stuff around increases the probability that someone else would stumble upon it. And once someone sees something in one magazine, they'd know stuff is being hidden all about and that kind of gives up the game.

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[Qutzupalotl]

13. A secret drawer, once disclosed, is the first place they'd look.

Hiding within personal effects seems like an attempt to dissuade from further search. At any rate, Trump is not the sharpest tack.

[sarcasmo]

8. Stealing documents to sell on the black market, no breaks for Donnie.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. Yep. I think that's where the missing went. I guess the idiot never heard of a copier or pictures.

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If he kept the originals, it wouldn't look like foreign agents took them.

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[lindysalsagal]

23. That's the part you can't dispute: Copies could have been made, rather than handing away originals.

He could have made copies and then returned the originals to the archive and avoided all of this nonsense.

That's what makes the senility argument stick around: A sane, but evil gangster would have done a better job of all of it.

[Farmer-Rick]

25. Good point

Why didn't he just photograph them in the White House?

This taking them implies he wants to keep the info away from someone too. He doesn't just want to sell the Top Secret info, he doesn't want others to have it or see it in the normal course of the US government business.

It also implies he wanted souvenirs and he felt hard documents may have been more valuable as souvenirs or historical documents for others too.

It wasn't just about selling off America's Top Secrets.

[lindysalsagal]

28. I wonder if the files would reveal his crimes, so he burnt them.

[FakeNoose]

14. It's ALSO a sign of obstruction

When we're talking about Chump - what does everyone believe? Dementia or Obstruction?

Hmmm ...

[brewens]

15. His appearance a few times might be a sign. He's let himself be photographed looking like hell.

We never have seen that from him before except for obvious screwups. Wind incidents with the hair and the bad spray tan lines.

If he does his hair and makeup himself, that is quite a process, I'm sure. He might not be up to it every day now.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Perhaps he's trying the Vincent Gigante defense, where he'll start walking around in bathrobes.

[empedocles]

16. Dyslexic, now dementia? Is there any mental malady this dipshit does not seem to have?

[AnotherMother4Peace]

18. He's a con & ignorance has always worked for him. His supporters & Faux excused

his mistakes in office as him being an outsider. He didn't know how the "bureaucracy" worked. That made the fascists love him all the more. He did the same here - leave top secret documents in such a way that he can try to say "Oops - simple mistake, could happen to anyone".

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. TFG is not well

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[GoCubsGo]

21. That guy next to him ain't looking too good, either.

He looks like Alex Jones, shaved and with a bad, bad toupee.

[StarryNite]

26. He looks like Jabba the Hutt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. For this thread

Link to tweet

[GoCubsGo]

20. It's also a long-used tactic that lazy, stupid criminals use.

Idiots do this kind of thing when they think they'll pulling something over on someone else. It's becoming more and more obvious that Trump is one of the most stupid criminals in history.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. TFG stored top secrets with clothing. This is not a good sign

Link to tweet

[ultralite001]

27. Every day that passes...

is one day further from the truth...

The sooner the RTumpster is held to account, the better...

That is all...

[Hekate]

30. I was thinking more of "The Purloined Letter."... But yes, he is also several fries short of...

… a Happy Meal